What are the responsibilities and job description for the Healthy Steps Specialist position at Family Health Centers, Inc?
QUALIFICATIONS:??? A master?s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, early childhood education, or related field highly preferred. ??Clinically Licensed mental health professional preferred. Experience and knowledge about early childhood growth and development, parent-child relational health, infant and early childhood mental health, and family systems.
Essential Job Functions
Essential Job Functions
- ?Promotes HealthySteps within the practice to families and providers.
- Conducts team-based well-child visits before, during, or following the primary care provider visits focus on monitoring development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, and providing anticipatory guidance.
- ?Maintains a child development support line and responds to and tracks call requests within the designated response time.
- May conduct home visits and may accompany families to key medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed.
- May facilitate parent/caregiver groups.
- Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make successful connections to key resources within the community.
- Works closely with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goalsetting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child?s development.
- Maintains extensive databases required to meet HealthySteps fidelity metrics including both internal and external referrals.
- Collaborates with HealthySteps Implementation Team to complete required annual site reporting to the HealthySteps National Office at ZERO TO THREE, which may include analysis of both external database files and EHR data reports.
- Documents all patient clinical activity and care coordination in EHR.
